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...made it. He's an Absolut ad. Next of all, there is an Doonan Absolut. It is a window display staging the making of vodka by scantily-clad mannequins in a gleaming factory cell. Point is, Absolut's made it. It's in a Doonan window. Everybody's happy, fame stacks on fame, cash registers go manic, and my heart is racing-take me to this high-speed, brite-lite, kitschball arena of window dressing...
...self-critical. Today, after 25 years, millions of fashion windows, messy windows, live windows and even windows with live-stock and transvestites, he wonders at his fortune in being gainfully employed at all, he declines the title of an artiste, and he is constantly more delighted than deprecating. Not fame, not fortune, not even cliche, will change the remembrance that in Reading, England, he was "a gay half-wit with no future...
...restaurant, she talked about her new fame. She is, of course, recognized wherever she goes. "I don't particularly like it," she said, twisting the butt of a Marlboro Light from her cigarette holder and drawing a fresh one from a gold case. "You have to be nice and polite to people, whether you want to or not. But it's bearable. My life hasn't changed that much. Life is still fine, just slightly different...
Setting the single-season home-run record, Dickson says, changed him, not because of the fame but because of the achievement. "In his everyday life I see a more confident person," she says. "Not just as a player but as a person. Because he was able to manage the stress and overcome it." McGwire's challenge was thrust upon him, not only to deliver with his bat and to withstand the pressure, but to act like a hero for at least one baseball season. If he did it a little stiffly, you have to wonder this: Who would feel natural...
...sheep treatment and created the world's first cloned human embryo. Sure, the researchers managed to generate a little buzz in the local press when groups like Green Korea United blasted them for meddling with Mother Nature. But around the world (and especially in the U.S.), their claim to fame was overwhelmed by colliding headlines about impeachment and cruise missiles...